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January 21, 2013

January 4th - St. Lucia

St. Lucia was another of the ports where we didn't get off the ship. It's funny with St. Lucia - we've been there something like 4 times and every single time it pours at some point in the day and this time was no exception. You could see it coming over the mountains towards the town.

Soon you couldn't even see the mountains.

Just a few minutes before we'd been watching the crew do a lifeboat drill, but the downpour was soon over and the drill continued.

It went on like that for most of the day. We were feeling bad for the people who'd gone off on tours in those open trucks.

It cleared up a bit around lunchtime and we headed out the back of the cafe to seat outside (but undercover just in case). It was so windy that the flag was practically blowing straight up.

We kept ourselves busy doing indoor stuff and sitting out on the balcony reading and doing sudoku. Our balcony is deep enough with a large overhang a couple of decks above it that unless the rain is coming in on an angle it stays pretty dry. We'd already gone through my free 90 minutes of wireless (it's hopeless using internet onboard ship - that's why I'm writing these now that we're home) and I went down to sign up for John's free 90 minutes. We get the free minutes because of being frequent cruisers on the line. While I did that John went down to check with one of the future cruise people about possibly changing our stateroom on our Australia/New Zealand cruises next year and was told he should come back on Monday as there would be some new deals being offered starting then.

We booked the rest of the items from our romance package (a champagne breakfast and dinner in one of the speciality restaurants).

The show in the theatre was the worst one yet and we walked out part way through it - we've learned sit at the back and then you can just leave without disturbing anyone.

114 nautical miles overnight to Bridgetown, Barbados and we were keeping our fingers crossed for good weather as we really like getting off in Bridgetown.

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January 4th - St. Lucia

St. Lucia was another of the ports where we didn't get off the ship. It's funny with St. Lucia - we've been there something like 4 times and every single time it pours at some point in the day and this time was no exception. You could see it coming over the mountains towards the town.

Soon you couldn't even see the mountains.

Just a few minutes before we'd been watching the crew do a lifeboat drill, but the downpour was soon over and the drill continued.

It went on like that for most of the day. We were feeling bad for the people who'd gone off on tours in those open trucks.

It cleared up a bit around lunchtime and we headed out the back of the cafe to seat outside (but undercover just in case). It was so windy that the flag was practically blowing straight up.

We kept ourselves busy doing indoor stuff and sitting out on the balcony reading and doing sudoku. Our balcony is deep enough with a large overhang a couple of decks above it that unless the rain is coming in on an angle it stays pretty dry. We'd already gone through my free 90 minutes of wireless (it's hopeless using internet onboard ship - that's why I'm writing these now that we're home) and I went down to sign up for John's free 90 minutes. We get the free minutes because of being frequent cruisers on the line. While I did that John went down to check with one of the future cruise people about possibly changing our stateroom on our Australia/New Zealand cruises next year and was told he should come back on Monday as there would be some new deals being offered starting then.

We booked the rest of the items from our romance package (a champagne breakfast and dinner in one of the speciality restaurants).

The show in the theatre was the worst one yet and we walked out part way through it - we've learned sit at the back and then you can just leave without disturbing anyone.

114 nautical miles overnight to Bridgetown, Barbados and we were keeping our fingers crossed for good weather as we really like getting off in Bridgetown.